Enjoy using Google Chrome's "Incognito" search option for private web browsing? You might want to clear your history if you've been hanging around sensitive sites as of late. According to TechCrunch, development and design firm Parallax discovered that Incognito mode doesn't completely hide your searches when used on the Chrome app for iOS 7, as anyone who uses the standard search page will be able to see your history.

Here's how it works. Using the iOS 7 Chrome app, open an Incognito window. Once it's open, enter a term of your choice in the search bar. Close Incognito and go open a new, regular Chrome window, and then direct the browser to Google.com. When you start entering a new search term in the default bar, you'll see whatever you entered in Incognito mode pop up as one of the recent search terms.

Oddly, based on our own fiddlings with the issue, the search terms and the actual sites you visited while Incognito don't appear in the actual History tab itself. Instead, they appear only in the main Google search window at Google.com within the Chrome app.

And here's the oddest thing: according to Google's response to TechCrunch, there's no way to fix it. In their words, it's "an unfortunate but unavoidable loophole that comes with building a browser for iOS."

They explained why in an associated support note: "On Chrome for iOS, due to platform limitation regular and incognito* tabs share HTML5 local storage, which is typically used by sites to store files on your device (client-side caching) or to provide offline functionality. This means the same sites can always access their data in this storage in both regular and incognito* tabs. Incognito* tabs will still keep browsing history and cookies separate from regular tabs, which are cleared once those tabs are closed."

Want to be on the safe side? Just use the native Safari app. As MacRumors notes, Private mode for Safari works just fine.